Computer Security and Compliance in the Federal Government

Continuous monitoring is a process that detects compliance issues with an organization’s IS environment. The United States Department of State performs continuous monitoring on its network of 40,000 computers and 5,000 routers, which support 285 posts throughout the world. It uses the Risk Scoring Program to monitor an information system  and assess its security in ten categories. The system receives a score between one and ten in each category, with one representing the highest level of security and ten representing the lowest level of security. The RSP uses these ten scores to assign a single letter grade to the IT professionals responsible for that system, with “F-” being the worst grade and “A” being the best grade. This assessment is performed at least once every two days.
The continuous-monitoring model of the RSP provides IT professionals with their degree of risk, and it also encourages a sense of competition with their peers. The State Department reports that its RSP has reduced the risk of its domestic systems by 83 percent and that of its foreign systems by 84 percent since 2008. The OMB has also implemented a security dashboard to complement CyberScope’s automated reporting capability. This dashboard helps to ensure that CyberScope submits its reports in a timely manner.

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MEC security; Status of standards support and future evolutions

whitePaper | September 28, 2022

The present White Paper will focus on MEC (Multi-access Edge Computing) technologies and intends to explore security-related use cases and requirements with the aim of identifying aspects of security where the nature of edge computing results in insufficient industry approaches to cloud security. Edge computing environments are by nature characterized by a complex multi-vendor, multi-supplier, multi-stakeholder ecosystem of equipment including both HW and SW devices. Given this overall level of system heterogeneity, the areas of security, trust, and privacy are key topics for the edge environments. Finally, the advent of edge cloud federations and the presence of (far) edge devices, e.g., in Internet-ofThings environments, requires tackling MEC security with an end-to-end (E2E) approach by leveraging existing standards relevant in the area, as carefully selected to be applicable in edge computing systems.

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Simplify Data Protection for VMware Workloads with Veeam Data Platform

whitePaper | March 1, 2023

Outages and data loss are an unfortunate reality for businesses today. These outages can cause big risks to your company’s reputation and revenue, as every minute of downtime means that critical data isn’t accessible to your business. If things weren’t complicated enough, managing a complex, hybrid, multi-cloud environment makes continuity even harder. These challenges increase complexity exponentially, greatly impacting your ability to stay in control.

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Dashlane - Security White Paper August 2022

whitePaper | August 30, 2022

Access to the user’s data requires using the User Master Password which is only known by the user. It is used to generate the symmetric Advanced Encryption Standard(AES) 256-bit key for encryption and decryption of the user’s personal data on the user’s device. We useWebcrypto API for most browser based cryptography and the native libraries for IOS and Android.

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The Ethics and Security of Cloud Computing

whitePaper | October 17, 2022

Nearly four thousand years ago, Hammurabi engraved the laws of Babylon onto a stone plinth and revolutionized the codication of law. Today, lawyers of all walks of life are engaged in a new revolution, with the ability to practice law armed with nothing more than a tablet device and an internet browser—a revolution brought about, in large part, by the rise of cloud computing.

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Securing Today's Convenience Stores with Fortinet

whitePaper | June 14, 2023

Today’s convenience stores (C-Stores) rely on a variety of digital tools to support an evolving retail engagement model that includes everything within the store interior and the forecourt. This can involve point-of-sale (POS) infrastructure, self-service kiosks, intelligent building systems, digital signage, fuel dispensers, guest Wi-Fi, security cameras, loyalty system integration, and store-in-store services. Plus, today’s stores contain a wide array of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices, such as walk-in cooler sensors and occupancy sensors. Protecting these critical systems against cyberthreats is paramount for compliance and maintenaning brand value.

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Fujitsu PRIMERGY Server Security Overview

whitePaper | May 22, 2023

During the last few years server security has become a key building block for end-to-end security. We see strongly increasing cyber-attacks on server infrastructure, which results in an intense need for server security. This whitepaper presents an overview of the security features which are available for PRIMERGY server.

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